H2> hearing that the people from the dim sum shop were snooping in front of the stall, Lan Yi felt normal.

"This is also a helpless thing, Fengle Lou and Le Xiangju have to pick up the good ones and send them, bring more chestnuts over tomorrow, and come back after selling. It will take a while for those dim sum shops or vendors to figure out that the same sugar-fried chestnuts are like ours, and then the price will come down. ”

In this era, there is no intellectual property rights and patent protection, and whenever something new appears, it will be imitated, so it is no wonder that everyone has a secret recipe hidden and tucked away.

Although the fried chestnuts were blocked and the fried sand was pulled back by them with a donkey cart, there was no impermeable wall, and even the sand particles that fell on the ground could make people figure out something.

"Fortunately, my sister-in-law is smart and bought a lot of Maoli back from the dry goods store, otherwise we wouldn't be able to sell it for a few days." Liu Shi looked at Lan Yi with admiration, "When the price of Mao Chestnuts goes up, we can sell what we have in our hands and make a profit, and we will be angry with them!" ”

Chen thought more far-reaching: "These people won't look at us and make trouble at the stall when we make money, right? ”

Wang Linxi saw his daughter-in-law's worried appearance, so he whispered comfortingly: "The transaction of a few dollars this day is nothing in their eyes, and they will not come to make trouble." ”

Li Shi was still a little troubled after listening to his son's words: "Let's fry more every day, and quickly sell the chestnuts to save worry." ”

Liu and Second Uncle Wang hurriedly nodded.

Wang Linyuan said: "How big is our Huang County, and we can't sell it if we fry too much." However, it is also possible to fry more on the market day. ”

Second Uncle Wang saw that it was almost over, clapped his hands and stood up: "Okay, let's take advantage of this time to weave a few more straw baskets." ”

When everyone heard this, they hurriedly began to divide up, and the three of them refused to rest even though they had been busy all morning.

Lan Yi looked at the lively appearance of everyone, and couldn't help but think of a friend who was doing business. Her friend used to work in a large company, and he always complained that the company's clock-in and commuting management was too dead, so he didn't have to be free, and later he quit his job and opened a small shop on his own. Before opening, he showed off to Lan Yi that from now on, he would open the door at what time he wanted, close the door and sleep when he was sleepy, and so on, looking free and easy. But after the opening, Lan Yi found that he was even less free than when he went to work, opening the door early and closing the last every day, and he didn't even rest on Saturdays and Sundays.

Lan Yi asked him why he didn't close the door and go to bed earlier, and the guy opened his mouth and said, "Is it the same as doing it for others?" Let's open for a while longer, and the day's pocket money will come out. ”

Lan Yi had to feel the huge difference brought about by different roles at that time, and now the second uncle's family is not the same, there is so much difference between doing it for herself and doing it for others.

Lan Yi doesn't know how to weave straw baskets, she takes Yu'er and the baby home and puts the copper coins into the money box, so that a little bit of money every day is slow, but it is a lot safer.

She doesn't want to be seen in front of people, and the more people who know her, the more danger she and her children will be. Although it is now thousands of miles away from Meixian, as the saying goes, the mountains do not turn and the water does not turn, and the water does not turn and the people turn.

The money she saved this winter and the money she earned from peony oil extraction next year were enough for her to go back to Meixian to inquire about who the baby's enemy was and how powerful it was. If those people have given up looking for the baby, it is best, if they haven't given up, Lan Yi will definitely come to the bottom of the kettle to mess up their business in the Meixian base camp, so that they have no time to take care of the baby.

If you want to draw wages from the bottom of the kettle, you must have the money and ability to be the iron hook of this salary! Money, helpers and connections, all of which have to be accumulated little by little by her.

Lan Yi held the baby's soft little body in her arms, if the children were older and sensible to protect themselves, she would not be so timid.

"You're still too young!"

When Yu'er heard her mother's words, she immediately straightened up her little chest and said, "Mother, Yu'er is not small!" Yu'er now eats a big steamed bun for one meal, and hitting the dog hole is more powerful than Brother Dafu and cow eggs. ”

She smiled and reached out to touch Yu'er's handsome eyebrows and eyes, and Yu'er's second uncle Li Er's lame face flashed in her mind, and couldn't help but sigh that since Yu'er's father is the brother of the second lame, how could he give birth to such a handsome son, genetic mutation?

Lan Yi is also heartless, thinking of this, she couldn't help laughing, and the depression just now was suddenly thrown in the corner by her.

Ten days after the sugar-fried chestnut business was done, there were more people selling chestnuts in Huangxian County. Sugar-fried chestnuts have not yet been imitated, but boiled chestnuts, popping chestnuts, etc. have robbed many customers, and there are naturally fewer people waiting to buy chestnuts in front of the Wang family's stall.

Fortunately, five or six thousand catties of sugar-fried chestnuts were sold in the past ten days, which can be regarded as reaching the initial goal.

After Lan Yi and a few people discussed, they left enough chestnuts to sell to the root of the year, and sold the rest.

At this moment, the goose-feather-like snow also came to meet the occasion and fluttered all night.

After a heavy snowfall, the mountain village was covered in silver, the mountain danced with silver snakes, and the beautiful scenery of the original Chi wax elephant was dripping into ice, Lan Yi was wearing more like a round ball, cotton shoulders, cotton jackets, cotton pants, and a blue cloth cotton cloak with a hat when he went out, so he felt that his body was not frozen. The two children were more forbidden to freeze than her, but Lan Yi still locked them in the house and cleared the snow in the courtyard by herself.

The snow that fell that night was more than a palm deep, and Lan Yi didn't sleep much at night, because she was afraid that the snow would crush the roof of the greenhouse, so she got up once every hour to clear the snow that fell on the grass fence covering the greenhouse.

Lan Yi got up in the morning and went to check the snow in the pigsty, donkey shed and sheep shed, fortunately, they were not crushed, these livestock are all hairy and not afraid of the cold, Lan Yi has to envy for a long time every time she sees it.

Lan Yi checked the chickens and geese hiding in the firewood room again, and saw that they were all fine, so she began to clear the snow near the greenhouse and enter the greenhouse.

The fire wall of the greenhouse is burning on three sides, because it is dug more than half a meter, although the greenhouse is colder than a few days ago, and the vegetables grow slowly, but fortunately they are still alive, but the color of the vegetables is pale under the lack of sunlight, and there is no emerald green earlier, and now the most eye-catching is the yellow flower, and the cucumber seedlings finally bloom and grow small cucumber strips, which makes people feel extra surprised and eye-catching.

It's 29 weather now, and spring will be in another month, this time is the coldest time of the year, and it is also the time when there is the most lack of fresh vegetables, the vegetables in the greenhouse are naturally very valuable, and Lan Yi takes care of them very carefully.

Every house in the village has a tool to clear the snow, in fact, it is a wooden plank larger than a shovel, which is used to push the snow into a pile and then carry it to the stream or the head of the field, of course, there are also lazy people who only sweep a path in the yard, and the snow in other places allows it to slowly melt by itself.

Lan Yi wants to clean up the snow everywhere, but fortunately there is a large vegetable garden in her yard, and the snow does not need to be pushed outside the yard as long as it is piled up in the empty vegetable garden. There is only a small piece of overwintering garlic seedlings planted in the garden, and the garlic seedlings have been covered with straw by her, and the snow has played a protective role.

Wang Linshan and Wang Linxi helped their sister-in-law clear the snow after breakfast, and at this time Lan Yi's family also had breakfast, she piled the snow into the vegetable garden little by little, and the two children were wearing thick cotton clothes and gloves to roll snowballs, and they were having fun.

"What about the peonies on our hillside, second brother, have you been to see it?" Lan Yi asked Wang Linxi, he was very concerned about taking care of the peony, and he would not be relieved until such a big snowfall had to be.

Wang Linxi nodded: "I've seen it, not many branches have been crushed by the snow, Zhao Huajiang said that we are well prepared, no matter how big the snow is, it doesn't matter." ”

Lan Yi nodded, and saw that Wang Linyuan was about to move the ladder to the roof to clear the snow, so he hurriedly walked over and held the ladder and said, "Third brother, take your steps carefully." ”

Wang Linyuan nodded, and neatly climbed onto the roof and pushed the snow down with a wooden shovel, and the snow fell on the ground with a dull sound, and Lan Yi knew how frightening it was to look up on the ground and watch others clear the snow.

After the last heavy snowfall, she took matters into her own hands, carrying a wooden shovel to the roof early in the morning to shovel the snow. When the two Wang brothers went to Lan Yi's house to help her clear the snow, they saw her dressed as a ball and stood on the roof, Wang Linyuan slipped directly under his feet and fell to the ground! Wang Linxi carefully stood under the eaves to protect him, insisting that his sister-in-law come down and replace him.

Afterwards, the second uncle and aunt blamed Lan Yi several times for this, although the severity of the speech was different, but when translated into modern Chinese, there is only one meaning: you are a weak and small body, don't be a woman, which makes Lan Yi feel powerless.

When it snows heavily, every household sweeps the roof, so at this time, there are people standing on the roofs of each house, and everyone shouts and greets each other, which is very lively.

If the snow on the roof is not swept down, the snow will melt and freeze after the sun, and the roof will not only reduce the temperature in the house, but also have a great impact on the stability of the house.

After cleaning the snow, taking advantage of the fact that there is no stall to sell sugar fried chestnuts today, Lan Yi plans to start making sugar gourds, and now it is the end of the year in the ice and snow, and it is the best time.

After the hawthorn entered the winter, they ate less than chestnuts, and Lan Yi only cooked some hawthorn water for the children to drink when they were not digesting well, or put a few hawthorns as a seasoning when they stewed meat, so the pile of hawthorns that were similar to chestnuts were basically untouched.

Make a few bamboo skewers with a kitchen knife, clean the hawthorn, remove the seeds, string them on the bamboo skewers, boil the sugar, put them in and coat them to make sugar gourds. Well, this is not a "rock sugar gourd", there is no rock sugar in Da Zhou, and Lan Yi doesn't know how rock sugar is boiled, and the sugar used is caramel and granulated sugar at home.

Her craftsmanship is not good, and it took four or five times to master the heat and make the sugar gourd. The sugar gourd made is golden, and the taste is sweet and sour, and it can be handled.

Lan Yi, Yu'er, and Baobao both love to eat, and after each of them ate a bunch, the family of three changed into clogs and rushed to the second uncle's house hand in hand to recommend this new food.

Hand in hand is not to appear intimate, but because the snow is slippery, Lan Yi is not worried that these two small nature to pull, the snow on the road is not uniformly cleaned, each family is sweeping the snow in front of the door, so the width of the swept path is also different, if no one lives at home, the snow is naturally not cleaned, the road is broken, the method of sprinkling salt and snow on the road in modern cities does not work here, because salt is expensive, everyone is reluctant to put salt in stir-frying, how can they be willing to spread on the road!

Lan Yi and the three of them squeaked on the snow, but it was also very interesting.

"Mother, why didn't Uncle Tuesday come back?" Yu'er looked at the snow in front of Zhou Weiji's door and said that since Zhou Weiji played a few games in the sun-drying market, he seemed to have become the idol of several Yu'er's hearts, and he was very concerned about him.

"Tuesday Uncle had something to do, so I went to a far away place to deliver something." Lan Yi has said this many times, and she is a little unaccustomed to the sound of horses' hooves in the morning and evening. However, it is estimated that Zhou Weiji should also come back, and it is inconvenient to go out on a snowy day.

Lan Yi thought of Zhou Wei's extremely tall and straight figure and the equally tall and arrogant dark horse, but she felt that they should also come and go freely on this snowy day.

Because Lan Yi said hello in the morning, Wang Linyuan and his wife also took Er Niuniu at the old house at this time, Lan Yi took out the sugar gourd and gave it to a few children, and several adults were also curious to take it and look at it for a long time before putting it in their mouths.

After the entrance, the sweet and crispy sugar coating and the fresh sourness of the hawthorn fruit neutralized, which made people want to stop, and the second uncle of the whole family felt that it was too sour to eat.

Lan Yi saw that everyone had tasted it and said, "I harvested a lot of red fruits in the autumn. It is said in medical books that red fruit can eliminate food accumulation and dissolve stasis. Because it's too sour, I boiled it and wrapped it in sugar and thought it tasted good, and we now sell a lot less sugar-fried chestnuts every day, so why don't you sell this thing too, what do you say? ”

"Sister-in-law, you also learned this thing on the road?" Liu's cheeks were sour, but he couldn't help but bite down on one and taste it slowly, although the sister-in-law said that she had amnesia, she didn't learn anything along the way. Chen and Liu have talked privately many times about how powerful it would be if their sister-in-law remembered the past.

Lan Yi shook her head: "This time I figured it out by myself, and I haven't seen any of them for sale." ”

Unless someone from the traverser brought it in advance, the sugar gourd would definitely not appear here, Lan Yi was sure of that.

The sugar gourd actually originated in the Song Dynasty - Emperor Guangzong's favorite concubine had a strange illness and did not think about tea and rice, and many valuable medicines were ineffective in the imperial hospital. A Jianghu Lang Zhong entered the palace to diagnose the pulse of the concubine and prescribed a prescription for frying red fruits in sugar water. This sugar water fried red fruit appetizing, sour, crisp and sweet, later the practice spread to the folk into a sugar pile, that is, the red fruit wrapped in sugar and did not string up, until the Qing Dynasty for the convenience of eating appeared into a string of sugar gourds.

Although history has been distorted, the current Great Zhou is only at the end of the 10th century, and the reign of Emperor Guangzong is at the end of the 12th century, a difference of 200 years!

Liu heard that his sister-in-law had figured it out by himself, and his eyes began to become crystal bright again.

Wang Lin glanced at his daughter-in-law: "It's April when my sister-in-law comes back, where to find red fruits!" ”

Liu Shi blushed when he looked at him, and he didn't know why, Lin Yuan was much more enthusiastic than usual these days, which made Liu a little overwhelmed. R1152